The toolbox program is a wrapper for setting up containers on Fedora. It’s not doing anything you can’t do yourself with podman, but it does make using and managing containers more simple and easy to do. It comes by default on Silverblue where it’s aimed for use with terminal apps and dev work, but you can try it on a regular Fedora workstation.

sudo dnf install toolbox

Creating containers

You can create just one container if you want, which will be called something like fedora-toolbox-32, or you can create separate containers for different things. Up to you. As an example, let’s create a container called testing-f32.

toolbox create --container testing-f32

By default toolbox uses the Fedora registry and creates a container which is the same version as your host. However you can specify a different version if you need to, for example if you needed a Fedora 30 container.

toolbox create --release f30 --container testing-f30

These containers are not yet running, they’ve just been created for you.

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